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  • To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

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    Hyam, Jarrod
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    Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
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    ………….… 70 4.5.2 Mary Oliver…………………….. 73 5. Buddhist Mystical

  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

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    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    witch-craze, or what Mary Daly (1990) refers to as “the burning times,” targeted women accused of

  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

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    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    shared trauma, professor and literature scholar Mae G. Henderson writes, “[i]f dismemberment

  • Why women endorse ambivalent sexism : risks of young women's enjoyment of sexualization and the protective powers of feminism

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    Allemand, Haley M.
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    Hostile sexism (HS) is an antagonistic attitude towards women; benevolent sexism (BS) is a positive attitude towards women that is sexist in terms of viewing women in restricted roles. HS and BS held simultaneously is defined as ambivalent sexism (AS). Despite negative outcomes associated with AS, BS, and HS, women...
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    . For example, religious stereotypes of women as pure and pious (e.g., the Virgin Mary), reinforces

  • The Umpqua Eden site : the people, their smoking pipes and tobacco cultivation

    Creator:
    Nelson, Nancy J.
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    Located on the central Oregon coast, the Umpqua Eden site (35D083) yielded an artifact assemblage which is one of the five largest assemblages from the Oregon coast. The first aspect of the site that I looked at is the people who lived at the site, the ancestors of the Confederated...
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    Eden profile. 20 5 a-d)Bone fishhooks; e-g)unilaterally barbed harpoons; h) part of a composite

  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

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    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    medieval women by Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Mary Daly's delightful Wickedary (1987), Jacquetta Hawkes